UNIONS representing teachers have condemned the newly-introduced Heritage-based Curriculum saying it heavily borrows from the ruling @ZANUPF_Officialparty’s manifesto. Heritage-based curriculum preserves culture, identity … In today’s digital age, the use of science and technology in our education.
The Heritage-based curriculum the inculcation of Ubuntu philosophy in learners will be compulsory under the new curriculum.
This follows after (CALA )Continuous Assessment Learning Activities was scrapped , a programme which involved learning activities, projects or assessment that required learners to perform, demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency. It contributed 30% to a student’s final marks, while the other 70% came from end of year class examinations.
Heritage social studies are included in teaching primary school learners because they help students understand and appreciate their own cultural heritage, as well as the history, traditions, and values of their community
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader Obert Masaraure said the new curriculum was politicised.
“Heritage studies are a Zanu PF manifesto which is used to indoctrinate learners by sharing fictitious falsified history of heroics of the ruling party,” Masaraure said. “That is not the education we want for our children.”
Source Newsday
